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Lord Markham (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 1 May 2025

Debate

Dementia and Alzheimer’s Treatments

Contribution

A lot of the challenges in testing the efficacy of some medicines lie in measuring the progression of the disease. That is mainly done verbally and, as we all know, people have good days and other not-so-good days, so measuring the progression and impact of the treatment is hard. As the Minister will be aware, things such as retina scans are showing quite promising measurements in terms of the onset and progression. What are we doing in research in that area?

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